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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Ago Discovery Education Everything Ignorance Knew Know Now Own Progressive Sixty Yera
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Art Diplomacy Especially Half Nothing Say Speak When
The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Civilization Family Nucleus One Liner
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Banker History Hoard Inflammatory Know Last Man Money Thing Wise
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Change Civilization Consent Exist Geological Notice Subject
Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Activity Civilization Culture Freedom Oldest Promote
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Act Against Country Divide Machine Majority Minority Person Political United
I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Adequate Against Fanned Flame Hasty Income Magazine Mutual
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Dishonest Ill Other Ourselves Praise Speak Way
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Fera Hope Mind Most People Rather Think Trouble
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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Age Discovery Freedom Great Liberty Made Old Product Stress Youth
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Begin Choas Civilization Die Grow Liberty Order
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Less Memory Mother Penetrate Reasoning Seat Sooner Spank Take Time Tired
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Again Become Cecome Every Hatred Just Only Respectable Vice Virtue Wartime
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Faster Him Learn Men Teach Woe
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Basis Even Excess Government Perish Principle Tend
We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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Best Country Earth Event Four Hour Inform Last People Twenty We
Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Become Free Law Man Recognize Subject
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Adjust Code Condition Environment Moral Themselves
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Continue Declaration Independence Make Nature never Read Unequal
A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Afford Cannot Moralist Stateman
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Always Begin Broke Custom Every Minority One Originate Precedent Truth
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Been Eight Free Hundred Only Past Sixty Two War Year
It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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All Country Enough Fool Large May People Rule Time True
Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Always Clever Good Nothing Often Say Thing
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Discovery Education Ignorance Our Own Progressive
Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Civilization Education Transmission

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